This virus is not going away if we stay indoors hiding from it. What good will it do if we keep destroying the economy, the very engine we rely on to survive and thrive? More people might survive but at what cost? They'll have no jobs, no homes, no income for food and the bare essentials of existing. Their livelihoods and lives will be destroyed anyway.
People are not going to tolerate this forced authoritarianism much longer. We are a free country with rights to move about and associate with who we want. Some wanna-be dictator governors or bureaucrats are not going to stop that.
Really? If the virus is denied chances to spread, it will not go away? In what microbiology/infectious disease class did you learn THAT tidbit of information?
Have you stopped to consider that the economy would be pretty much destroyed if everyone got sick (with up to 7% of them dying)? And that the economic destruction caused by having the death rate so suddenly spike would not go away any time soon? Right now, we are making progress in controlling the virus, and it will actually go away if we keep it up. The economy will recover, since healthy people are eager to go back to work.